Forgive me if I’m just overthinking or thinking about nothing, I’m just wondering how educated should a worker be to be class conscious?
How I came to thinking was just pondering on people who are gullible to other people’s opinions, and the ethics of ethical education? Maybe just nonsense meta stuff, but what exactly can people do, and how can we teach people to be self-aware enough to listen to what they truly believe in. Especially when it comes to adolescents who are surrounded by information dumping news sources and ideas from all sides, and any one source just has to be charismatic/bold enough for it to stick in someone’s head for long term
Not overthinking. It’s an important question.
My view is that the proletariat must become as well educated as it is possible to be. Ideally, this should be a class conscious education. It doesn’t have to be formal education but it could be. In the next stage of history, the proletariat will be the ruling class. It must be prepared and ready to rule.
There are problems with formal and informal education. With formal education, students have to rely more on having good teachers; and then they have to rely on the class conscious element in this cohort that is willing and able to deliver a class conscious curriculum.
With informal education, it’s difficult to become an autodidact without some formal training. And either way, it’s then unlikely that someone in this world would happen across Marxism without some guidance.
I agree, that both should result in being good at critical analysis. We’re all gullible, unfortunately. It takes active and concerted effort not to be brainwashed by reactionary propaganda.
As for what to do? Teaching numeracy can’t hurt. But mainly, teach and encourage people to read. Not just basic literacy but really to read and to interrogate texts. This is the crucial element for formal and informal education, to overcome either the lack of tuition or overbearing liberal tuition. I can talk further about techniques if you like.